Welcome to AmpleHarvest

1. Welcome to AmpleHarvest.org At a time when all too many Americans have lost their paycheck and risk loosing their home, they should not be faced with loosing access to fresh food too. AmpleHarvest.org is a grassroots effort to get the excess bounty from America's backyard gardens to food pantries and soup kitchens nation-wide. Just because your garden produces more tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, or other produce than you and your family/friends can use does not mean you need to waste the rest of it. Member food pantries/soup kitchens in your area are in great need of your assistance. This is no fee for using this site, and it is run on a non-profit basis. It's only intention is to link up home gardeners with an AmpleHarvest to organizations who will distributed the produce to hungry Americans. This site is under development - we hope to have it live, and helping hungry neighbors in the very near future.

2. All too often, Americas backyard gardeners with even the least bit of a green thumb, grow more tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes, etc. than they can use or give to friends. AmpleHarvest.org is a program dedicated to helping these gardeners find local food pantries that are desperate for fresh fruits and vegetables to help hungry families.

3. Making this work requires: A page that functions as an “About Us” page…. describing the goal of the site A page on the web site that food pantries would use to set up a profile A page used by gardeners to find a local pantry that accepted fresh produce. A page with links to other organizations involved in food distribution A FAQ page

4. AmpleHarvest.org Home Page About AmpleHarvest.org Food Pantry Page Gardeners Page Links Page FAQ Page

5. About AmpleHarvest.org AmpleHarvest.org is a grassroots effort to get the excess bounty from America's backyard gardens to food pantries and soup kitchens nation-wide. Etc. Contact Info Web site designed by…

6. Pantries Page: The pantries page would allow a pantry to create a new password protected entry in the data base, or edit/delete an existing entry.

7. Welcome to The Pantry Page Please log in or click here to set up a new account

8. Pantries Page: The data collected would include name, address (including a Google linked map to aid in directions), two phone numbers, fax, email, web site URL, hours of operation, an optional photo, and a free form text area for any additional information they want added.

9. Pantry Page Name Address Phone/Fax Email Web site URL Photo Text Info Hours Google Map

10. Pantries Page: Additionally, the information would indicate if the pantry can pick up food or needs it delivered, what day[s] of the week it can accept/pick up food, etc.

11. Pantry Page We can pickup produce (Y/N)? What days/times do we accept deliveries? We need/don’t need these items….

12. Gardeners Page: The gardeners page would be much simpler…. accepting the gardeners zip code, as well as the distance they are willing drive. Once entered, the site would use the data in the pantries data file to display any/all pantries that are within the mileage indicated by the gardener. If none are within their driving range, it should display the nearest one available.

13. Gardeners Page Please Enter Your Address/Zip Code……..? Can you deliver or must the pantry pick up your produce…..? How many miles can you drive…….?

14. Gardeners Page (Click on the Pantry Name for more Info) Pantry Address Distance Phone xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxxx

15. Links Page: The links page should allow for the director at AmpleHarvest.org to easily add/revise links, grouped by whatever criterion makes the most sense.

16. Links Food Pantry Organizations ………………. Gardening Organizations ………………… Etc.

17. FAQ Page: The FAQ page should allow for the director at AmpleHarvest.org to easily add/revise questions.

18. FAQ Quesiton….. Answer Quesiton….. Answer Quesiton….. Answer Quesiton….. Answer

19. Possible Enhancements: • An option for newly/existing registered panties to generate an email to other pantries inviting them to join • An option for Spanish speaking people • An option to search the pantry data file (i.e. someone in need of food looking for a pantry)

20. Closing Thoughts: The design of the site should be clean, simple, and visually appealing. It should use fonts easily read by older people who have difficulty with small print. It is expected that as this rolls out, it may be apparent that additional information needs to be added to the pantry data file. Ideally, the file layout should be easily alterable by anyone with basic HTML/DBMS skills

21. Closing Thoughts: As this is an all volunteer effort, the hope is to have the site located on a no cost/low cost ISP that can handle what we hope will be a significant volume of traffic as the harvest season approaches.

22. Closing Thoughts: While the time/expertise offered by the web development firm is greatly appreciated, there, we do hope that they will remain available on an as needed basis for enhancement to the site if it is needed. The web development firm will have the opportunity to list their logo/name/contact information on the web site

23. Next Step: The goal is to have the web site out for testing by April 15, and live by May 15. sooner is better. Please contact gary@AmpleHarvest.org with any questions or concerns.

24. Thank you.